Report from an Undisclosed Location

As mentioned in our last update, Natsumi and I are currently in Japan on business.

One of the items on our to-do list was to travel to the top-secret Sonoda-Sanctum so that Mr. Sonoda could prepare the endpapers that will be bound into the special hardcover artbooks that the Signature and Inscribed backers will be receiving.

This arduous task took the sensei over 5 hours to complete - and every endpaper will have a little something extra to make them particularly unique.

"Carpal Tunnel, my old friend…"

While we were there, Mr. Sonoda gave us a sneak preview of the final bit of original artwork he is creating for the Explosive Edition…

…and delivered some of the pages of the dojinshi…

Finally, as a special bonus, he has digitally created a new version of the original artwork that was the inspiration for Gunsmith Cats, based on a scan of the original line art!

The artbook just got a little bigger…

That's all for this quick update! As always, thanks for your support of the project!

Superbacker

An excellent way to start the week!!! and +1 to the appreciation of Mr. Sonoda's office being a mess! Like an art explosion!

Can you imagine if he didn't throw ANYTHING away and just started listing things for auction online... I'd love to buy some of the sketches that never came to print... especially one scrunched out of frustration and thrown against the wall. I imagine his standards aren't just "that'll do." haha